New York Stops Playing Country
She comes out the drive way
And she turns the radio on
It’s the same old radio station
But now the country music’s gone
She though she made a mistakes
She stops on the side of the street
They were playing new music
Not the familiar country beat
She comes to New York City
After she graduate
Opportunity comes knocking
A job offer that just couldn’t wait
She always misses the country
It’s where her heart and soul belongs
But now she’s going back to Tennessee
New York stops playing country songs
She said the New York City lights
Are starting to hurt her eyes
She needs to see the mountains
Under the big blue sky’s
She got lose between her ambition’s
And the wealth of Wall Street
She climbs the ladder of fortunes
But she was not complete
And the old country songs
And the only thing that keep her sane
But New York stops playing country
She going back to Tennessee again
She’s feels like a shell in the ocean
New York City makes her feel so small
This small town girl from Nashville
Is going back to the place that started it all
To feel the Tennessee rain on her head
And the green grass under her feet
The cool waters of the Tennessee Lakes
And the friendly people down Memphis Street
She always felt like a stranger in New York
And now she knows that for sure
And its times to leave the city
New York don’t play country no more
Please don’t get me wrong
New York City you are so is lovely
So good bye miss statue of liberty
Hope your green face don’t cry for me
She looks over the Manhattan
Going home in the plane
Maybe one day she will come back
When New York start playing country again
She steps out of the log cabin
And feel the dew on the ground
And on the radio inside
Playing that familiar old country sound
Copyright © Kasim Ishmael | Year Posted 2013
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